Running during hunting season (Read 907 times)

Ghetto would be a more appropriate term for Jackson than backwoods. In towns like that, unless someone is actually injured the cops generally seem to find some reason not to have to do anything. I was openly assaulted twice while running in a similar area and both times the cops went out of their way not to get involved. I still am dumbfounded by anyone who manages to shoot at something that is a person and think it is something else. In my two decades of hunting I have never misidentified something and pointed a weapon at it. If you are any kind of ethical hunter you are aiming at a specific point on an animal -- not vague noise, movement, or shape in the bushes. Apparently these people are and that is when problems begin. This is why I do not hunt public land in the midwest. MTA: If memory serves, you cannot A) hunt within 500 feet of a dwelling without permission of the landowner, and B) I believe there is a minimum acreage requirement to hunt with a firearm. Additionally, if it was inside city limits I guarantee there was a local ordinance against discharge. Throw in the shooting at a house part, and you're looking at a minumum of 4-5 misdemeanors.

Be sure of your target and what is beyond, folks. I agree, there are way too many damn fools out there who don't represent hunting very well.